I will make
you serve your enemies. The received text has “I will make your enemies
pass,” wehaʿavarti, but the duplication of this verse in 17:4 as well as
in many Hebrew manuscripts show waʿavadti, “I will make you serve.” One
should recall that the letters resh and dalet are close in form. (Robert Alter,
The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:913)
